David McAfee
davidmcafee at gmail.com
Thu Mar 19 15:59:16 CDT 2009
I agree with him on these A2007 problems: Not being able to see a list of object sorted by modified date the way you'd expect in Windows Explorer. Losing Alt+D as a way to put the current object in design mode Losing the toolbar item to automatically jump to a form or report's module code Missing right mouse click items like import/export As for the Ribbon, I don't like the "Once you get used to it, its not that bad" that I hear quite often. I don't feel so many command/tol bar buttons need to be seen. As a programer, I feel I need to know what the user needs to have available to them, If they do need something that can navigate view the menus (oops, they removed them!). "Overcoming Resistance to Change For years, the Access community complained that Microsoft was abandoning Access, that they didn't invest enough in it, that the Jet Engine and DAO was dead, etc. Well, the Microsoft Access development team for Access 2007 was the largest ever and Microsoft made a huge investment that added considerable new features to Access." I never really requested change. I hoped that they wouldn't abandon Access, like was always rumored. There are a few new cool features, but they never fixed some old bugs that still go back to early versions of Access. They still haven't made a list box with .fontcolor or .selectedrowBackColor property. The datasheet totals are cool, but I should provide that for my users in their form. Remember, users shouldnt be accessing the tables/queries directly. "In Access 2007, a different approach is necessary for finding your object. Rather than visually finding it, enter some letters of the object name in the Search Bar, and the list of objects gets filtered to just those names. This makes it very easy to find objects by name -- especially text within an object name -- that wasn't possible before. Once you are used to this, it's very difficult to go back." Nah, give me my detail view. The ability to sort by Name and or date is more important to me. My naming conventions is another way for me to quickly find what I need. The Date picker is nice, but is there a way to turn it off? THey may be times where you don't want it to be displayed, or use your own instead. Just my worthless 2 cents, David On Thu, Mar 19, 2009 at 1:04 PM, <rusty.hammond at cpiqpc.com> wrote: > > I just thought I'd throw this out there and see everyone thinks. > > http://www.fmsinc.com/MicrosoftAccess/2007/Top-Features.html > <http://www.fmsinc.com/MicrosoftAccess/2007/Top-Features.html> > > It does sound like there are some nice new features. Whether they outweigh > the drawbacks... > > > Rusty Hammond > > > ********************************************************************** > WARNING: All e-mail sent to and from this address will be received, > scanned or otherwise recorded by the CPI Qualified Plan Consultants, Inc. > corporate e-mail system and is subject to archival, monitoring or review > by, and/or disclosure to, someone other than the recipient. > ********************************************************************** > -- > AccessD mailing list > AccessD at databaseadvisors.com > http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/accessd > Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com